Artist Quote by John F. Carlson Download Open image “If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.” — John F. Carlson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Going Paint Ifs Inspirational Paint Paint Photos Painted Painted Years Photography Ten Ten years Years
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them,… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
